Arts & Entertainment What It's Like To Be Gay, Out, Or In Drag At Mission High School For decades, Mission High School has had the reputation as one of the roughest, toughest high schools in the San Francisco Unified School District. But the place has been safe-spaced up significantly for
SF News Kim And Wiener Kissing Rings For Drag Queen Endorsements It’s an old rule of politics that “endorsements don’t matter." But the old rules are getting served some new San Francisco realness by an emerging constituency of unexpected political power brokers
SF News Record Company Dings Drag Queens Supporting Scott Wiener For Use Of Katy Perry Song Did the use of Katy Perry's "Firework" in a video plug for Scott Wiener just explode in the Supervisor's face? As the politician campaigns against Jane Kim for a state senate seat in
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Jane Kim Does Drag Juanita MORE!, Polly Tickle (a.k.a. Jane Kim), and Glamamore. Photo via Shot In the City At the Powerblouse party at Powerhouse (link semi-NSFW) on Saturday night in which drag mothers Juanita
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Disastrous,' A Drag Send-Up Of Disaster Films At Oasis Marking her third foray into the ridiculous saga of stripper-turned-action-heroine Champagne Horowitz Jones Dickerson White, local drag star and Oasis co-owner D'Arcy Drollinger returns to the stage this week with Disastrous. It's a
Arts & Entertainment Vinsantos, Legendary Queen Of Trannyshack's Heyday, Returns To SF Sunday For A One-Night-Only Cabaret This Sunday night’s show at Oasis offers a can't-miss treat for old-school drag fans who remember the days when no one carried a “cell phone”, when drag queens were still not allowed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Honor Of <i>Showgirls! The Musical!</i>, Drag Star Peaches Christ Gets Ice Cream Named After Her Over at Humphry Slocombe, starting August 1, you'll be able to enjoy a new ice cream flavor named in honor of the great San Francisco drag star Peaches Christ, and her new West
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: A Drag Tribute To Nikki Star Drag queens, sadly, are not immortal despite what you may believe, especially if you listen to all the jokes about Lady Bunny being from the 14th Century, or a fully embalmed, miraculously animated
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Daughters Of A Riot' At The Brava Theater At the Brava Theater this weekend, Friday and Saturday only, is a unique piece of collaborative performance being done by some notable names in SF's drag and nightlife communities. It's titled Work MORE!
Arts & Entertainment Bob The Drag Queen, Winner of <i>Rupaul's Drag Race</i>, Coming To Castro Memorial Day Weekend The "Drag Queens of Comedy" tour, which arrives at the Castro Theatre for two performances on Saturday, May 28, has just added to the bill the breakout star from Season 8 of Rupaul's
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 'RuPaul's Drag Race' SF Premiere Party Last night Mezzanine was serving sold-out RuPaul realness with the premiere party for the eighth season of cult-favorite show Rupaul's Drag Race. Season Six winner Bianca Del Rio was on hand along with
Arts & Entertainment Drag Version Of 'Three's Company' Comes To Oasis Next Week Much like they've done with The Golden Girls, Sex and the City, Designing Women, Star Trek, and Absolutely Fabulous over the years, San Francisco's more comedic drag queens are for the first time
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Lady Bunny On Her Fu****-Up New Show 'Pig In A Wig' One of the most influential (and curvy) figures in the history of modern drag culture, Lady Bunny hops in from New York City this weekend for a three-night run of her new cabaret
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About The End Of The Eight-Year Run Of Castro Club Booty Call Wednesdays Thanksgiving week will mark the end of an era for Castro nightlife as drag queen DJ and promoter Juanita More is ending her weekly party at Q Bar, Booty Call Wednesdays. Eight years
Arts & Entertainment Video: Local Drag Queen Honey Mahogany Does 'Game Of Thrones'/Demi Lovato Parody Fans of gay blogs may be familiar with hairstylist Jonathan Van Ness and his ongoing Funny or Die series Gay of Thrones in which he recaps Game of Thrones episodes in his own
Arts & Entertainment 42nd Annual Castro Street Fair Dedicated To Memory Of Late Drag Queen Cookie Dough Sunday marks the 42nd annual Castro Street Fair, a non-profit event founded by Harvey Milk in 1974 during the neighborhood's burgeoning days as a gay district. These days it is the calmer, less
Arts & Entertainment Weird Documentary Profiles Local Drag Queen Heklina As part of their Truly CA series, KQED has just shared this documentary short about San Francisco drag star and Oasis co-owner Heklina. It's a little odd, with a Bergman-esque opening sequence involving
Arts & Entertainment Cult Movie 'Showgirls' Turns 20, Here's How To Celebrate The high holy holiday on the San Francisco drag calendar that is Peaches Christ’s Night of 1,000 Showgirls takes on a special significance at Saturday night’s annual screening and party,
Arts & Entertainment Alexander Skarsgard Explains The Drag Thing Monday night, Alexander Skarsgard inexplicably showed up at the Diary of a Teenage Girl premiere in SF in full, rather excellent drag. While some might say he didn't need a reason for this,
Arts & Entertainment Regulator Rules Facebook Has To Allow Pseudonyms... In Germany A data protection authority in Hamburg, Germany has ordered Facebook to allow its German users to employ names of their choosing, because to do otherwise would violate their right to privacy, as Reuters
Arts & Entertainment War Brewing In Castro Between Party Promoters, Merchants, And City Workers Over Ripping Down Posters Lampposts and street poles in the Castro have long been plastered with images of half-naked men and drag queens on posters promoting gay events in and around the neighborhood. There's good reason for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Dinner With Juanita MORE! Thursday To Benefit LGBTQ Youth Conference Each year, in preparation for her annual Pride blowout, local drag icon Juanita MORE! chooses a charity to be the beneficiary of proceeds from the party which follows the parade on Pride Sunday
SF News SF Pride Bends To Pressure From Facebook, But Board Vote Was Close Over 'Real Name' Controversy Last week we showed you the vaguely worded joint press release that was issued by the SF Pride board of directors and Facebook in advance of a June 1 protest that's set to
SF News Facebook And SF Pride Issue Joint Statements About 'Real Name' Policy As they face another protest on June 1 by the LGBT community, Facebook has issued yet another statement talking around the issue of their "authentic names policy," suggesting vaguely that they've been adjusting
SF News Drag Queens Renew Fight Over Facebook 'Real Name' Policy, Demand That Company Be Banned From Pride Parades Using the hashtag #NoPrideForFacebook, a San Francisco group headed by the same drag queens who went to war with Facebook last fall are now calling for a ban on Facebook's participation in the
